Will the Justices Hold Presidents to Account?, by Jesse Wegman

Despite how the founding fathers of the U.S. already had set this up, and yet, this is now, “up-for-grabs” on the immunity clause of that “last guy”, Trump, as he’d, INSERTED the Republican Party Supreme Court Justices who are bound to rule in his favor, to allow him to run for office this November before he’d EXITED the “building” that last time…from The New York Times that came with today’s papers…

Did the American Revolution actually happen?  If it did, was it a good thing?

This is more or less what Justice Elena Kagan seemed to be wondering during the oral arguments in Donald Trump’s January sixth immunity case at the Supreme Court on Thursday morning.

“Wasn’t the whole point that the president was not a monarch and the president was not supposed to be above the law?” she asked.

Like her, I had assumed those questions were answered decisively in the affirmative more than two hundred years ago.  But ow, after almost three hours of circuitous debate and bizarre hypotheticals at the Supreme Court, I’m not so sure.

the rioters, testifying that Trump told them “to come” on Jan. 6th, and this still may NOT be enough as evidence to PREVENT the LAST GUY from running again…

The right-wing justices seemed thoroughly uninterested in the case before them, which involves a violent insurrection that was led by a sitting president who is seeking to return to office in a matter of months.  Instead, they spent the morning and early afternoon, appearing to be more worried that prosecuting Trump could risk future malicious prosecution of former president by their political rivals.  And they tried to draw a distinction between official acts, for which a president might have immunity from prosecution, and private acts for which no immunity would apply.

The upshot was that a majority of justice appeared prepared to send the case back down to the lower courts for further unnecessary litigation, which would almost certainly eliminate any chance of a trial being held before Election Day.

So let’s remember how we got here.  The case began last year with special counsel Hack Smith’s indictment of the former president on charges of obstruction, fraud and conspiracy relating to his central role to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election, which resulted in the deadly attack at the U.S. Capitol.  This scheme was, by a long shot, the most egregious abuse of authority by any president in history.

In short, the justice system is doing its job by trying to hold to account a former president for subverting the last election before he runs in the next one.  That is a very important job!  And yet the right-wing justices are saying essentially, not so fast—and maybe not at all.

The federal January 6^th trial should have been underway for almost two months by this point.  The lower courts, in opinions by judges appointed by both Republicans and Democrats, dispatched this appeal with ease.  But the Supreme Court decided to take the case anyway, scheduling it for the final argument of the term.

And, this is how Trump utilizes the DELAY tactics, so he can, be on the roster to run for presidency in November, I mean, all he had to do, is hold out until past November, when he gets into office again (and I’m pretty sure that he will too, seeing how BIDEN is becoming more and more, demented, and the REPUBLICAN cult has a way of inciting ANGER in the masses, and those BRAINLESS voters are just, going to, keep on following that god DAMN leader of that CULT, down that CLIFF!), he would have gotten his immunity of getting charged for his role in the takeover of Congress on January sixth (was it now???), and he would’ve, escaped the consequences of his immoral behaviors, because before he was ousted in the last election, he’d already, IMPLANTED the Republican Supreme Court justice into their seats, and, guess W-H-O, these party-affiliated justices will side with?  Exactly, and JUST like Taiwan, the U.S. justice system still got KIDNAPPED by an equally CORRUPT political party like the DDP here, the Good Ol’ Party, the REPUBLICANS!

Note: I’m still INDEPENDENT voter, I only vote on issues, but why the HELL bother, I mean, if the votes are against the wishes of the city council, they’re just going to host another voting, to OVERTURN the voices of the majority of voters that last time, just like how the votes in redistricting that I’d participated in, back in….can’t remember when, it did NOT pass the first time, and the second time, the city council revoted on the matter, none of us who voted against redistricting showed up to cast our ballot, and the second time, this SHIT passed, but hey, that’s DEMOCRACY in application for you!

The Police Suspected of Harboring the Gambling Rings, the Offices & Homes of the Two Assistant of Yeh Searched

Money is still the CULPRIT, of all of this, BAD, police business, taking the bribes, because the money’s way too hard, to turn, down, the morality of the police department, still, sliding, down, low, low, and LOW!!!  On knowing the crime and, committing the crimes, getting tempted by money…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The sergeant of Songshan Substation of Taipei City Police Department, Liu was suspected of beginning in 2009, covering for the sex rings, the gambling rings, received the bribes from the enterprises, to give the individuals heads up of when the police is making a raid; the Taipei D.A.’s Office sent seventy units out yesterday, directed the investigations, searched and called Liu and thirty-five who’d been involved, of the individuals, there were the former and current office manager of the city councilman, Yeh, Chang and Lin, the authorities are working the case as encroachment charges.

The district attorneys pointed out, Liu had worked in the Zhongshan Substation’s Zhongshan Second Substation, in October of 2021, he’d transferred to Songshan Substation, as a sergeant.  Beginning in 2009, Liu was under suspicion of taking bribes from the local gambling and sex trafficking rings, and gave the operators heads up before the police is about to go and raid, he’d hovered over the illegal sex and gambling businesses, up to date.

Based off of understanding, Liu was suspected of receiving bribes from seven individual locations, including the bars, the massage parlors, the casinos, and the arcades, every time he’d received anywhere from a few thousands to tens of thousands of dollars N.T.

The Taipei D.A.’s Office yesterday directed the Taipei Airport Station of the Investigative Bureau, the Police Affairs, and the Taipei City Police Affairs, a total of seventy raids, at eight in the morn, they’d arrived at the Songshan Substation, took Liu into custody.

The Songshan Substation stated, that Liu had been out on illness since February, 2022, and in November of 2022, he’d, resume working, and because of his condition, he was only responsible for the noise complaints, the animal protection cases, the sanitary violations, and other local complaints, that in his time working at the Songshan Substation, he had nothing to do with the special occupations’ raids.

Of the operators who’d suspected of bribing, there were the two former office manager, Chang of Yeh’s office, and the current office manager, Lin, both are suspected of being shareholders of the sex business, they were both, also, arrested.

The patrol officers told off the records, that Lin and the rest are very blunt, and before the elections, someone already predicted that they will get found out; and the investigators, the district attorneys also found, that Liu’s daughter works as a sale clerk of the related skin care cosmetic shop, believed that there was the new evidence and connections there.

Based off of understanding, Liu had been suspended from a case, and during the time, he’d gone to Yeh’s home to work as a live-in security, that’s how he was connected with Yeh’s people.  The investigators received an intel, of the individuals’ being in suspicions of covering up for the illegal gambling rings, and after the evidence had been collected fully, the law enforcement started the bust.

Another case of how difficult it is, to turn down the money offers, how the bribes to the police are simply, way too, hard to, resist, and it’s because of greed, that’s caused these LAW ENFORCEMENT officials to go over to the “other side” of the law!

Biden: if Hamas Release the Hostages, the Attacks on Gaza will End the Following Day

Biden made it sound like it’s up to the Hamas to stop fighting, that they only needed to release ALL the hostages, to end the assaults on the land, but it’s, not that, simple here…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The AFP and CNN reported on the eleventh, that at a fundraising event in Seattle, Washington, the U.S. president, Biden stated that if the Hamas free the hostages in Gaza, then, at the soonest, Gaza will stop fighting “tomorrow.”

Biden stated to about a hundred present said, “just like I’d said, it’s reliant on the Hamas, if they want to free the hostages, then, we will end this tomorrow, start the ceasefire process by tomorrow.”

On the eighth, Biden was interviewed by the host of CNN special report, stated for the very first time, that if Israeli army enters into Rafah, he will stop supplying the weapons made in American and the ammunitions which had been used on the assault on the many cities of Gaza.

There are five Americans who’d been taken hostage by the Hamas right now.  The American security consultants met up with the families of the five American hostages.  The families are gravely upset, especially in seeing their loved ones having been treated humanely enough after being taken.

the video of this “peace talk” by Biden from CNN, off of YouTube

Since the Israeli-Hamas War began last October, there were about 250 who’d been taken hostage to Gaza, of these, 128 still hadn’t been released, including thirty-six who’d been, killed.  The negotiators for Israel and Hamas had left Cairo, where the peace talks took place, with last week’s ceasefire dissolving.

Hamas said, the Israelis objected the ceasefire plans proposed by third parties, returning the negotiations to release the hostages back to where it was, and accused the P.M. of Israel, to block the talk of ceasefire, using the negotiations as a false front for the assault on Rafah.  The Israeli officials stated, that unless the country defeated the Hamas, otherwise, they won’t agree to a permanent ceasefire, even if all the hostages were, released.

And so, the negotiations still go, B-U-S-T, because, Israeli refused to back down, and, the Hamas hit back, this is still a I hit you, you hit me vicious cycle, with neither side willing to take a step backwards, and so, the war continues and many more will die, because the blame is on the Hamas, and, the Hamas won’t have it!

The Instructor Was Robbed, and Was Sexually Assaulted & Murdered, the Suspect Escaped the Death Penalty & Received Life-in-Prison Instead

How is sexual assault AND murder not considered an “intentional crime with lethal or other extremely grave consequences”???  This is what TSAI wanted to achieve, before she steps down, a FINAL move toward eliminating the death penalty altogether, because the DDP is, too EAGER to get RID of the death penalty for this country…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The retired school instructor who’d received the teaching excellence aware, Chen, ten years ago, when she went grocery shopping, she was robbed at random by the perpetrator, Liu, sexually assaulted, then, murdered, in all of Liu’s trials, the courts gave him the death penalty, but the retrial of his fourth appeal, the collectivist courts found, that Liu’s actions did not fit to the “most severe sort of crime”, and changed his sentence to life in prison, as the families of Chen heard the verdict, they’d stated that this was the, “most awful verdict”, that it’s absolutely unfair toward the families of the victim, that they will, appeal the verdict to the very, end.

here’s a video of the debate on death penalty, from YouTube

On the day of the crime, Liu was going to see his girlfriend, with a hammer, as he passed the Hello Marketplace in Zuoying, Kaohsiung, he saw Chen opening the door to her car, he’d planned to steal her car to use it to go see his girlfriend, but instead, he’d, attacked the female instructor in the head with the hammer, and gotten into the driver’s side, then, dragged the female instructor into the back, sexually assaulted her using his fingers, and, robbed two thousand dollars N.T. from her, then, escaped, eight hours after the robbery and assault, the police discovered Chen, DEAD in her car.

The first trial found Liu guilty for sexual assault, robbery and murder, sentenced him to death, and, of the charges on sexual assault, because the district attorneys and Liu didn’t appeal, it’d been, set, Liu was sent to prison, the robbery murder parts, he’d gone through various retrials, appeals, and all the judges presiding over the cases believed that Liu used such cruel methods, gave him the death penalty on five separate, occasions, his public office post stripped for life.

The Highest Court found, that whether or not the female instructor was robbed because she had two thousand dollars N.T. on her, or that if Liu had the intent to commit murder, there’s need for more investigations on these, that there’s not enough justification for the death penalty, and sent the case back to retrial at the Kaohsiung High Subsidiary Courts, multiple, times.

the people, MARCHING against making death penalty unconstitutional…photo from online

The fourth retrial confirmed, that on the robbery part, other than Liu’s own confessing to it, there’s no other physical evidence, that Liu had randomly selected Chen to victimized, and, killed her in the process of robbing her, that it wasn’t, premeditated, that it’d not fitted to the “most serious sort of crime” clause.

The Collectivist Court based off of the psych evaluation, the assessment of sentencing given, found that Liu only needed to have a strict mean of supervision, his chances of reoffending will be, reduced, it’d, ruled out that he will, never, change, tossed back the original, verdict.

As Chen’s husband, Chang heard the verdict, accused Liu in court, that he’d targeted his wife to rob her, “doesn’t this show premeditation, and that his murder of my wife being, planned?”, the evaluation reports suggested, that there’s a, fifty-two percent chance that Liu might reoffend again, the justice disregarded the results of the evaluation, Liu committed the crime at the age of forty-seven, and is sentenced to life in prison, based off of the parole terms, he can get out of prison in his sixties, the justice had returned a murderer, a rapist back into the local communities, “Taiwan has no criteria for doing away with the death penalty”.

And this is still due to the DDP’s eager to get rid of the death penalty, and, these murderers will get released back to the wild after twenty years served, and, they will, surely kill again, because, this man committed the murder and the sexual assault in the spur of the moment, and who’s to say, that he won’t have that spur of the moment feel, after he got released, after he’d fitted to his, parole terms?  And, the life-in-prison is still BULLSHIT, because, these MURDERERS, RAPISTS will get set free into the “wild” after ten, twenty years served, because they can get paroled for “good behaviors” in prison, or that the prison is overcrowded, making this world that much more, dangerous to live in.

Without Adding More Employees on Staff, Safety of Daycare is Only Hot Air

The “treatment” proposal by the Department of Health & Social Welfares, and this is still, HINDSIGHT, and only works in THEORY, but not in the “application phase”…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The murdered by abuse case of Kai-Kai caused the society’s concerns for daycare agencies to grow.  Three months after the death of the young boy, the Department of Sanitation Social Welfares finally posed out the evaluations, adding the guidelines of increasing the number of visits to the nanny’s to better the quality of care.  The newly revised guideline for at-home daycare home visits stated, that other than the increased number of visits to the all day daycare and overnight care programs, the visiting officials also needed to be aware of signs of abuse, and to see if the nanny is well.

There’s no shortages of cases of nursing abuse, and many parents had long lost faith in the quality of nursery care.

The newly advised guidelines were set, to catch the child abuse earlier, but, the locally at-home daycares are with the enormous numbers, with one social worker in charge of overseeing sixty nannies, and, there are, more than just one child per nanny, and, more practically, these social workers are often, barred from the building by the attendants of the residences, or even after the attendants notified the residents, the nanny already, hit the extra children out on the balconies.

Toward the complexity of visitation, the visitors also needed to fill out the various forms, comply to the demands of the multiple government agencies, they’re, overwhelmed with the workload, and, there’s, no unison of the rules of guidelines of the visitations, some of the counties and cities issued the warnings to the nannies who aren’t up to standards, and when there’s enough violations accumulated, then, the nanny’s certification will be, pulled out.  The problems with the nannies are happening too frequently, even the legislators of the party in power told, that adding the number of visits by the social workers isn’t effective, the government should set up the guidelines, to fist, lower the ratio in social workers per case, otherwise, the plans of bettering the safety of daycare is just, hot air.

And so, this problem is due to the understaffing of the social workers, and how many cases each social workers must oversee, and this is still the government agencies, TREATING the problem, instead of preventing it in the first place, after the young boy died of abuse, the DDP then, proposed these, plans to make childcare and daycare programs, safer, and that does SHIT for the welfare of young children, because another kid died already.

Witnessing to Violence at Home, Increasing the Chances of Becoming Abusers Growing Older

Because the dynamics of an abuser/enabler relationship is still LEARNED by the children, from watching the adults, interact!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

Studies showed, that children who witnessed domestic violence at home, the males have a 5.27 times of becoming abusers, the females, 4.3 percent, to best prevent the abused to become an abuser is to stop the vicious cycle at the source, but, for those young children who already witnessed domestic violence, there’s the need for the preventive “social learning”, the experts pointed out, that the earlier the intervention, the higher the efficacy of stopping the vicious cycle.

the environment which we were, raised up in…photo from online

Those with experiences of domestic violence, stated by the C.E.O. of the Counseling Guild of Taipei, Lang, will more than likely have the “learning effect”, those who witnessed and had been abused, are more than likely to abuse those around them too, if the childhood traumas got put off until adulthood to manage, then, even IF the professional help or the medical assistance had been offered, if the individuals don’t open up, the learned behaviors of violence can’t be, rooted up.

The secretary of the Counseling Association, Su stated, that a middle school student who bore witness to the violence at home, worried that if he goes to school, his mother would get abused, and would fake illness to stay at home, to protect his mother.  Su told, that these signs needed to be caught on time by the schools or the social policy organizations, so intervention can be offered, to stop the children who are witnesses to the violence to continually get, traumatized.

how we will, likely, interact with our significant others…being “victimized”…photo from online

Du the Women’s Rescue Foundation told, that based off of the research, a-third of the children who witnessed domestic violence worried that they may become abusive themselves, or get abused, to the point of not dating, not marrying; helping to lower the chances or to stop the domestic violence, is the only way to avoid the children from getting, affected by it.

Yeah, this is all, sound, and it’s absolutely true, that if you were witnesses to abuse when you were younger, chances are, you will, turn into an abuser or an enabler (not the victim!) in your future relationships, and, this is like DNA, impossible to get rid of, unless you are, extremely AWARE of yourselves, your interactions with others in your lives, and, you take measures to change, otherwise, no amount of protection, education, or even, PRISON time will, stop this vicious cycle.

The Post-Pandemic Rise of Children Who Witnessed Violence at Home

The Post-Pandemic Rise of Children Who Witnessed Violence at Home

A trend, that’s NOWHERE N-E-A-R, good here, and yet, this is a vicious cycle, with the systems of counseling not set up functionally enough, and everything goes bust underneath, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

Most of the Children Who Were Witnesses to Domestic Violence Usually Sent into Counseling at School, the Trials Can’t Catch up to the Cases that are Occurring, the Children Who Were Traumatizes are Falling Through the Holes

There’s a huge increase of violence at home globally during the pandemic, based off of the statistics reported by the Department of Health Welfare & Sanitations, even in the post-pandemic times, there’s still a continual hike in the number of cases of domestic violence reports, the “witnessing children” of these violence, on the rise also, it’s just, that as the number of witnesses steadily gets higher, the cases of counseling these children who witnessed the abuse continued at the steady rate of around 1,500 cases per year, and the schools which are the direct agencies relating to the children witnessing, have NO follow-up means, and the children who were abused, are falling through the, cracks.

Based off of estimates, the adult cases being reported back in 2019 was 26,258, to 2023, it’d gone up to 35,793, an increase of over 9,500 cases, and the cases overseen by social workers was around 1,500 on average, the highest was in 2021, with 1,674, most of the cases were counseled by the adult protection agency’s social workers themselves, with the average of over 8,300 individuals getting counseled, the remaining over 15,000 were referred to the educational resources.

Du, the C.E.O. of Women Rescue Foundation stated, that the cases that were offered the assistance were mostly the children who live in the violent environments, the children who only witnessed the violence at home, are mostly counseled by the local organizations’ social workers, but, the social workers of the private sectors, have less resources available compared to the public agencies, and can’t provide enough help to those in need.

The legislator, Lin stated, that currently, the Department of Health and Social Welfare handed the children of seven and older who’d witnessed violence at home to the individual educational departments, but how to practically offer the care and concern, it’d lacked the management means, for instance, should it be the school instructors or the school counselors, there should be the rules set up clearly, “otherwise, both would believed, that each had done it, but in reality, nobody does a thing.”

Du told, that in counseling the children who lives in the environment of domestic violence, mostly, the children’s cases are being handled by the adult protection social workers, but, these workers needed to sort through the matters of the parents’ domestic violence already, and had to take care of the minors’ cares, it’s not practical, and the degree of help offered is also, limited.  She also mentioned, if the children who witnessed the violence weren’t counseled by the children protection services’ social workers, they’re counseled by the school, and there would be the window of no help offered during the winter and summer vacation months.

And so, this IS, the lacking in the, systems, because the social workers are asked to carry everything, they’re not only in charge of getting the adults who are caught in the domestic violence interactions directly, they also have to, oversee that the children from these families are, receiving the needed care, counseling, and the trials to hear these cases are still not, coming, fast enough, and so, naturally, children fall through the, cracks here.

The systems need to be reset, reordered, reconstructed, to work better, but we lacked the personnel, the funding, and so, children will still die off, really, fast…

The Support Palestine Protests Became a Wildfire, Biden May Follow the Footsteps of Johnson

Just like during the Vietnam War Era, as the protests back then was ongoing, Biden could, stay a bystander, but now, he can’t, he needed to make a stand, and, which side he states he is on, will be the, determinant of how much he will, lose the elections coming up in November…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

Supporting Freedom of Speech, and Criticized the Anti-Semitic Beliefs, The New York Times: the Democrats Had Offended the Younger Generations of Voters, Giving the Guns to the Republicans

In the U.S., Columbia University students started protesting against the Israeli in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, this reminded us of the 1968 anti-Vietnam War protest in Columbia University, back then, the president of the U.S., Biden is a law student not too far from Columbia University, studying in the law department of Syracuse, he’d selected to be a bystander back then, but this time, he can, no longer be, a bystander.

The Students Rebutted: Anti-Israel isn’t Anti-Semitic

Toward the protesting students in Columbia University, Biden criticized Anti-Semitism, but the students stated, that they weren’t, anti-Semitic, only against the Jews setting up a country, against how the Israeli government was, massacring the Palestinian civilians, so long as U.S. continued to provide the weapons to Israel, Biden will continue being the target of the, protests.  Back in 1968, Johson from the Democratic Party had, lost the election because of the anti-war protests of the students, Biden, who’d been, compared to Johnson quite often, can he, avoid having the same fate, befalling, him?

The New York Times reported, the students who occupied the Hamilton Hall of Columbia University were chased off the premises by the police on the thirtieth of April, and in April of 1968, the anti-Vietnam War protest students took the exact same hall, at the time, Biden was about to graduate from the law department of Syracuse, he’d recalled later, that protesting, using the mottos, and wearing the dyed shirt wasn’t his style, “I’m a law student, in my sports jacket”.  Biden didn’t get drafted, because he had severe asthma.

Fifty-six years later, Biden can no longer, stand by.  Many of the universities across the U.S., the students expressed their anger of the attacks on Gaza by Israel, and Biden became one of the targets of the students’ protests too.  This is an election year, Biden needs to handle the politics of American university campuses with great care, to NOT walk in Johnson’s footsteps.

Biden Nicknamed “Genocide Joe”

The past few days, Biden was really careful in speaking, he’d supported that the students have the right to exercise free speech, at the same time, he’d, criticized the anti-Sematic sentiments toward the Jewish students.  But, Biden became, hated by both sides, the supporters of Palestinians called him “Genocide Joe”, even the supporters of Trump, his presidential opponent began referring to him as such as well.  The Republican politicians blamed him for being too weak toward the students in protests, and Biden tried his best, to avoid criticizing the students in protests himself.

After the protesters occupied Hamilton Hall, Biden didn’t immediately comment, instead, the WH spokesperson, Kirby criticized, “This is unacceptable behavior”.

with the protesters behind him, he’s still “not at liberty to comment”…photo from online

The New York Times points out, that the protests supporting Palestine puts Biden into two political dangers, of one, the left of the Democrats may drifter farther from supporting him, especially the younger generations who’d voted him in the last election, and the younger generations ARE, the key determinant of whether or not he will get reelected, again.  Another, it’d given the Republicans more justification to state, that the one who’d messed up the federal government of the United States, as well as international relations is Biden, NOT Trump, this may cause Biden to lose the support from the undecided voters.

Compared to four years ago, the voter support of under age thirty slips very quickly for Biden.  Based off of the Harvard Youth polls in April, Biden’s support dropped to forty-five percent, Trump with thirty-seven, and at the same time back in 2020, Biden was ahead of trump by twenty-three, percent.

The Younger Voters May Switch to Voting for Trump

The Democrat campaign manager stated, that they have faith, that the younger generations of voters will come to the polls and vote for Biden, because the younger generations cared more for the issued on abortion and economy.  And besides, the college semester is ending soon, and the authorities expected that the protests will calm down more or less during the summer vacations, if Biden can help push forth the ceasefire of Israel and Palestine before school starts in the autumn, then, after school begins in autumn, there won’t be any more protests.

here’s one, from the, “cartoons section”…from online

But, you can’t rule out yet how the Biden supportive Arab and younger voters, that they may not come to the polls at all, or switch to voting for Trump, to punish Biden.

In the past, Biden had been compared to Johnson, both had been vice presidents, were agile in pushing forth the amendments, with outstanding results, and now, Biden is stuck in the exact same predicament as Johnson was back then.

Since the start of the Israeli-Hamas War, the Israeli military had continually bombing the Gaza Strip, causing really high death rates among civilians, to the point of blocking the humanitarian resources to enter into the region, causing the Palestinians locally to suffer in despair.  Biden could NOT restrict the PM of Israel, Netanyahu, and continually providing the weapons to the country, making those in the U.S. who’d sympathized with the Palestinians see Biden as an enabler of the war.  The Israeli-Hamas War had severely impacted Biden’s campaign now, if Biden can’t stabilize the situation between Israel and Palestine, then, he may well, become Johnson, in failing in seeking his, second, presidential term.

And so, the WAR became, a SUICIDE for the president of the U.S., because he did NOT want to offend anyone, because he wanted to, maintain his, neutral standpoint, didn’t matter how he felt personally, because he IS, the president of the U.S. right now, so, everything he does, is, being, watched closely, which makes it even harder, because of how the U.S. stands on the side of Israel, because the U.S. had been “friends” with Israel for, how long now?  Despite how Israel is, attempting to, WIPE out the people who are Palestinians.

The Retired Serviceman Seduced the Servicemen to Spy for Communist China, Sentenced to Two and a Half Years

You’d COMMITTED TREASON, and all you got was two-and-a-half years?  Yeah, that’s too, light a sentence, I mean, did YOU compare how treason is punished (by DEATH, say???), in other countries, my dearest, DDP???  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The artillery unit private first class, Dai, who’d been retired, three years ago when to Zhuhai, China to work, was absorbed by the local army intel agency, and, paid by the case, he’d returned to Taiwan, to entice the currently serving military members to collect the military intel, Dai attempted to absorb two currently enlisted military servicemen, to start an organization but failed, was indicted on espionage by the D.A.’s office; the Tainan High Subsidiary Court found him guilty on breaking national security laws, sentenced Dai to two years six months.

The D.A. investigated, Dai was enlisted in February of 2007, he’d started serving the voluntary terms, in March, he’d gone to the Artillery Unit of the Marines to train, worked as an artillery, retired from the services in 2011, on the same year, he went to China, met a government intelligence agent called “Budweiser” in Guangdong.

working with classified intel…photo from online

As the man learned of Dai’s background, he’d offered him a very high payment plan, used the money to entice Dai to return back to Taiwan, to set up the communist spy units to prod, to collect the military classified data, and the plan zoomed in on the currently active servicemembers in the military.

Based off of understanding, Dai paid the intel by the cases given to him, enticed the currently enlisted, to collect the military classified data, with Dai, handing off the classified information to China, then, sent it up the chain of command in the Chinese military to evaluate, and, based off the grade of the data, that was how high or low the intel was worth.  Dai tried to get two currently enlisted military men, Yang and Tsai as his providers, but they’d told him they wouldn’t commit treason.

So, can you imagine, how easy it is, for the classified information from the military to get sold to the enemies, money is still a tool that’s used here, and nobody can turn down the offers of the huge sums, that, is how cheap morality is worth these days, and, this makes this country even more dangerous, because, we do NOT know, which of the military servicemembers, are going to, SELL military classified information to the HIGHEST bidder, and in this case, the highest bidder would be CHINA, NOT, Satan!

Uphill, Downhill

Going to the gathering of his old union friends…translated…

My Father-in-Law Who Appeared to Have Lost “Colors” Suddenly Turned, Bright , Like an Actor’s Projections, Awakened, by the, Spotlight………

After my father-in-law received the invite from the guild, my father-in-law asked my husband to take him to the group offerings of the New Year’s.

My father-in-law had owned a company that produced the stackers, and his friends recommended him as a member of the guild, although being a primary member, he’d not only needed to put in the energies, and the money too, but, my father-in-law, with only an elementary education felt, very, proud, to this very day, he’s an, honorary, board member, he’d gone dressed up to the nines to the annual meetings.

And yet, an accident had occurred last year, my father-in-law who made sure he’d exercised regularly, eaten right, had a stroke.  But thankful, his character wasn’t like his physical health, easily impacted, with his stubbornness and his toughness, he’d, regained his physical strengths, he just can’t walk as fast as he used to.

On the week closing in on the luncheon, other than the normal noontime walks, he’d added in the exercising early in the morn at the parks too, gotten a haircut, trimmed his beard and moustache, followed the rules of how to keep up with his own appearances like the stars of the movies.  But knew he can’t drive again, that he would need the help of a driver from the metro to Chingshui.

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The meal was at noon, but my father-in-law set out at nine in the morn, wanted to arrive early, so he can have the chit chats with those in the group.  In the past, the gatherings were the most radiant show time of my father-in-law’s, bumping into the familiar faces, he’d talked of the past, and the present with those whom he was acquainted with; the strangers, even better, he’d loved showing off his social skills, the eighty years’ worth of his life experiences, became an icebreaker for him.

Soon as he’d arrived to the restaurant, the waiter immediately came to usher him in, and, there were, the men in suits my father-in-law was faced with from the group.  After he was ill, he couldn’t work his body that agilely, the polo shirts, the sweat pants, the sneakers are more comfortable for him, but not as elegant as the suits were.  Entering into the box of the guild, finally someone recognized him, “Der, come, sit down!”

The chairs of the guild knew each other well, they’d not seen my father-in-law a long time, and started asking him how he’d been.  Suddenly, there was that glow in my father-in-law, like the actors, awakened onstage by the spotlight that suddenly shone on him, and started telling people of how he’d weathered through the stroke, hospitalization, undergoing physical therapy, just like how when there were visitors to our home, he’d always, retold the tales; but the noise volume in the restaurant is too great, my father-in-law’s reduced voice volume couldn’t keep everybody’s attention, and then, only those who were sitting right next to him were, nodding, like they were, listening.

The foods were rotating on the tables, as the peanuts are about to be completely gone, the entrees were, served, the sesame oil chicken, the scallops with the loofa, the tasty dishes came one right after the next.  After they had something to eat, the conversation increased too, but my father-in-law’s ears weren’t receptive enough, he couldn’t, chime in, seeing how people around him are getting up to offer the toasts to the other tables, he wanted to too, but was immobile, so he can, only, give up on the, thought.

The emcee started, “Congrats everybody!  A brand new year, the guild had prepared the raffles, those who come to sing on stage, will get a prize!”, then suddenly, people lined up next to the karaoke machine, don’t know if it’s for the songs, or for the, red, envelopes.

My mother-in-law told, that “your dad was asked up there by the host in the past, he’d not needed to stand in line like those over there.”

The music was very upbeat, but my father-in-law looked, a bit, lost, my husband consoled with him, “they’re all here for the drinks, and we are, not!”, he’d peeled a shrimp for his father, “we’re, in charge of eating all this food up!”, and yet, how much food can an eighty-year-old person consume?  The dishes aren’t healthy at all.

things lost when we grow, old…the possibilities of problems that come with old age are, endless…found online

We’d thought, that the last dish was the dried shrimp with the sticky rice in sesame oils, and yet, there was, a duck too, a plate of shrimps in aged wine, finally, the fruit, then that was, the end.  As we all got up to leave, my father-in-law almost couldn’t stand back up.  We’d been out for close to five hours, this long, he is, tired.

The waiter asked, “do you want to doggy bag the duck, the shrimps?”, the rest at the table were busying, drinking, the foods, barely, touched.  My mother-in-law glanced over at my father-in-law, told the waiter, no.  As we go to the door, someone hollered, “Der, you’re going so soon?”, my father-in-law turned his head, someone he knew.  “Come to the gathering the next time!”, “no thanks, too far, I would need a driver to take me.” “How’s that?  Drive yourself here, you only need to go over the Dadu Mountains!”, my father-in-law laughed, “Car, I’d sold it, beside these legs, they can’t climb the mountains anymore!”

At a little past two in the afternoon, the sun in the western coast still bright, thankfully, the drive back to Taichung is not into the sun.  As I wanted to pull the sunblock board down on my father-in-law’s side of the seats, I’d found, my in-laws were already, fast, asleep.

Do rest, after we go over the Dadu Mountain, we’ll be, home.

So, this would be, WHAT, old looks like, you LOSE it all, especially if you’d been hit with the ailments, your health will, deteriorate, and, these gatherings of people from your past, became nothing but a reminder of how well you used to be, and it’s quite, depressing, because you will, NEVER have those days of old back again…